English subtitles for clip: File:Execution of Mussolini (1945).ogv

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Bombastic Mussolini, the "Sawdust Caesar", comes to his end in the gutter,

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fitting climax to a life of treachery and double cross.

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He led his country to ruin when he threw his lot in with Hitler.

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Oh yes, they saw some palmy days when <i>Il Duce</i> confidently

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stabbed friends in the back. He had dreams of Empire, before

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the bayonets of the Allies deflated this false prophet.

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He was captured once before and rescued by German paratroops.

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This time, he had no such chance.

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Partisans tried him, along with his sweetheart and several henchmen,

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just as these pictures show the trial previously of other key

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Fascists and collaborators. He was brought before a firing squad

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and in this manner he died as tyrants should and was hung up

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by his heels. A fitting inglorious end!